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ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC
ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,937 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($18,971). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,624 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Wm Jordan Company Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Virginia Peninsula Foodbanklocal
- Impact13 Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $50.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
96% of ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $825 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Wm Jordan Company Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchVA · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Peninsula FoodbanklocalVA · funds 74 organizations near you
- Impact13 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boule Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Links Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- C Barker Champions for Charity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Windward Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Newwave Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Obici Healthcare Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC?
- ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,937 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($18,971). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $19,937 in grants to ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,971 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZETA LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALPNA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing